Please remember to pray for us my friend. We all
seem to have sinus infections now, though Avery is just in the allergy stage
still and i think she will be okay. Anyway it would be nice for it to warm up
and for us to feel good. I hate being sick. I hope you have a good start to
your week and remember Ephesians 6:7, that is your verse for the day as it was
mine.
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And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
Colossians 1:21-22
You are a new creation once you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior. Without the Lord in our lives we are in a way enemies with God’s law by our own actions and sin. The behavior which was our deeds and acts created a barrier between our hearts and the Lord. But our flesh was put to death on the cross with Christ so that we would become new people.
Now that we are new creatures in Christ, we are also to live in that manner. Just as a sheep acts like a sheep because he is a sheep, so we are to live as Christ because we are Christians. Our actions are a result of who have become. In Him we are to be holy and beyond reproach. Life must now be lived with integrity, honesty, and humility in everything we do.
Being and doing good has its rewards for it pleases the Father teaches us to be servants of our King. Paul will go into more on service in the coming verses, as we are all to live our lives for Christ. He is in us and moving through us, we should remember this whenever we speak or do anything. He is making us day by day more and more into His image.
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And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach--
Colossians 1:21-22
You are a new creation once you accept Christ as your Lord and Savior. Without the Lord in our lives we are in a way enemies with God’s law by our own actions and sin. The behavior which was our deeds and acts created a barrier between our hearts and the Lord. But our flesh was put to death on the cross with Christ so that we would become new people.
Now that we are new creatures in Christ, we are also to live in that manner. Just as a sheep acts like a sheep because he is a sheep, so we are to live as Christ because we are Christians. Our actions are a result of who have become. In Him we are to be holy and beyond reproach. Life must now be lived with integrity, honesty, and humility in everything we do.
Being and doing good has its rewards for it pleases the Father teaches us to be servants of our King. Paul will go into more on service in the coming verses, as we are all to live our lives for Christ. He is in us and moving through us, we should remember this whenever we speak or do anything. He is making us day by day more and more into His image.
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